Product Director
Job Type : Permanent, Full Time
Salary :
Product Director – ICIS – London, Houston or Singapore
Are you a digital product leader looking for your next challenge?
We have a fantastic opportunity for someone passionate about solving customer problems to join our extremely successful global product team. This role will own the product workstream that helps organisations in the chemicals commodities markets obtain the intelligence that supports the running of their businesses.
You will shape and deliver a key part our vision and product strategy and, in return, this is an opportunity to work with a talented close-knit team of product managers who are passionate about customer centric solutions.
This opportunity is ideally suited to someone with some proven success leading a product management team. Prior experience in commodities is an advantage but not essential.
Responsibilities
* Determines strategic product vision, product strategy and priorities for their assigned portfolio, in conjunction with the senior product director and wider stakeholders.
* Interacts with customers frequently and understands their use cases and business in great depth.
* Acts as the strategic product owner for assigned portfolio, including cross prioritisation of assigned senior product owners and product owners.
* Ensures execution of the product strategy to the highest standards and customer satisfaction.
* Key leadership role within the product leadership team and cross functional strategy group for assigned portfolio.
* Drives formulation of overall research/testing strategy and ensures product decisions are based on data from a wide range of sources.
* Develops go to market strategy and launch plans at the assigned portfolio level through coordination with stakeholders and is accountable for co-ordinated execution across product, sales, marketing, and other customer facing teams.
* Ensure commercial focus of product portfolio including revenue goals and proactive management of the product lifecycle.
* Acts as a coach and mentor to more junior members of the team.
This is an outstanding career opportunity within a market-leading global business. We have a supportive culture with a keen focus on innovation, technical excellence, career development and mutual support
Experience / Skills:
* Prior experience leading other product managers.
* Prior digital product experience in either web or data.
* Comfortable being a role model for others in the team; and mentoring across the business.
* Comfortable identifying new trends, potential problems, and opportunities early.
* Highly effective coaching others to analyze information to assess problems.
* Demonstrable curiosity and a hypothesis led approach to product management.
* Excellent communication skills, familiar with championing product strategy and management across complex businesses.
* Highly collaborative, values diverse perspectives and talent; and able to create a positive environment.
* Experience with business information or commodity intelligence would be an advantage.
* Bachelor/Master’s degree in relevant area.
We offer:
* A vibrant working environment in a dynamic, inclusive, ambitious, and committed product team.
* Exposure to key market players in the chemicals market.
* Personal development opportunities working for the global provider of chemical analytics.
* Flexibility, loyalty, empowerment and trust are part of our corporate culture.
We're keen to meet people with varied backgrounds – our view is the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We want to build teams which represent a variety of experiences, perspectives and skills and we recognise talent on the basis of merit and potential.
We understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they tick every box. If you're excited about joining us and think you have much of what we're looking for, even if you're not 100% sure… we'd love to hear from you
More Information
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